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Electronic version only. Total number of species 725. 72 records not entered: questionable indentifications not entered in FB (68) - Carcharinus sealei (Pietschmann 1916); dussumeiri & menisorrah (Valenciennes), Albula glossodonta (Forsskal 1775) = vulpes (Linnaeus 1758), Elops machnata (Forsskal 1775) = saurus (Linnaeus 1776), Cheliopogon furcatus (Mitchill 1815) = unicolor (Valenciennes 1846), Exocoetus volitans (Linnaeus 1758) = brevipinnis (Valenciennes 1846), Hyporhamphus limbatus (Valenciennes 1846)= unifasciatus (Gunther), Myripristis hexagonus (Lacépède 1802)= chryseres (Jordan & Evermann), Myriprislis pralinius (Cuvier 1829) = violacea (Bleeker 1829), Fistularia petimba (Lacépède) = commersonii (Fritzsche 1976), Callionymus marleyi (Regan 1919) = curvicornis (Cuvier), Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker 1856) = aprinus (Smith 1949), Kuhlia caudovittata (Lacépède 1802) = platysoma (Liénard 1832), Pseudanthias cooperi (Regan 1902) = kishiwar (Tamaka 1948), Cephalopholis aurantia (Valenciennes 1828) = ovalis (Bleeker), Epinephelus hexagonatus (Schneider 1801) = megachir (Richardson), Epinephelus miliaris (Valenciennes 1830) = fario (Thunberg 1793), Apogon novemfasciatus (Cuvier 1824) = faciatus (Gunther),
Cheilodipterus cheilodipterus (Linnaeus 1758) = octovittatus (Cuvier 1826),
Carangoides gymnostethus (Cuvier 1831) = C. gymostethoides (Bleeker),
Seriola rivoliana (Valenciennes 1833) = falcata (Cuvier 1833) = congora (Smith 1959) = bovioculata (Smith), Parupenaeus rubescens (Lacépède 1801) = fraterculus (Valenciennes 1831), Upeneus taeniopterus (Cuvier 1829) = arge (Jordan 1962), Geniacanthus caudovittatus (Gunther 1860) = melanospilos (Bleeker 1851), Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch 1787) = nicobarensis (Gunther 1860), Chaetodon chrysurus (Desjardins 1833) = mertense (Cuvier) = xanthurus (Bleeker), Chaetodon zanzibariensis (Playfair 1866) = speculum (Cuvier & Valenciennes 1831), Acanthurus bleekeri (Gunther 1861) = annularis (Cuvier & Valenciennes 1835), Acanthurus mata (Cuvier 1835)= blochii (Cuvier 1835),
Acanthurus nigricauda (Duncker & Mohr) = nigricans (Linnaeus 1758),
Acanthurus xanthopterus (Valenciennes 1855) = matoides (Cuvier & Valenciennes), Zebrasoma scopas (Valenciennes 1835) = rhombeus (Peters 1876), Zebrasoma veliferum (Bloch 1775) = desjardini (Bennett 1835), Ambassis commersonii (Cuvier) = bleekeri (Maugé 1883), Ambassis gymnocephalus (Lacépède 1802) = dussumieri (Cuvier), Pemperis moluca (Cuvier 1831) = mangula (Cuvier 1829) = nesogallica (Bleeker), Pamperis oualensis (Cuvier 1831) = otaitens (Cuvier 1831), Lutjanus bengalensis (Bloch 1790) = octolineata (Cuvier), Lutjanus fulviflammus (Forsskal 1775) = Gengoroyo notata (Cuvier), Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides (Lacépède 1800) = Gaterin gatherinus (Smith),
Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacépède 1802) = Pristipoma nigrus (Cuvier),
Plectorhinchus picus (Cuvier 1830) = punctatissimus (Playfair 1867), Lethrinus elongatus (Valenciennes 1830) = longirostris (Playfair 1888)= miniatus (Schneider 1801), Lethrinus mahsena (Forsskal 1775) = eryptropterus (Gudger 1929)= sanguineus (Smith 1859), Lethrinus nebulosus (Forsskal 1775) = opercularis (Valenciennes 1830), Abudefduf sordidus (Forsskal 1775) = Glyphisodon geant (Liénard), Chromis caerulea (Cuvier 1830) = viridis (Cuvier) = lepidurus (Peters 1876), Pomacentrus melanopterus (Bleeker 1852) = aler (Liénard 1839), Cymolutes lecluse (Quoy & Gaimard 1834) = praetextatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1834), Novaculichthys taeniourus (Lacépède 1802) = vanicolensis (Valenciennes), Scarus frenatus (Lacépède 1802) = purpureus (Lacépède)
Scarus gibbus (Rüppell 1828) = microrhinus (Bleeker 1862), Scarus japanensis (Bloch 1789) = capistratoides (Randall & Bruce 1983), Scarus psittacus (Forsskal 1775) = taeniourus (Valenciennes), Scarus russelii (Valenciennes 1840) = Xanothon frenatus (Smith), Nomeus grovonii (Gmelin 1788) = albula (Smith 1949),
Makaira indica (Cuvier 1832) = mazara (La Monte 1855), Mugil cephalus (Linnaeus 1758) = cür (Forsskal 1775), Sphyraena obtusata (Cuvier 1829) = chrysotaenia (Dutt 1967), Ptereleotris heteropterus (Bleeker 1855) = microlepis (Bleeker), Pterois russellii (Bennett 1831) = lunulata (Bleeker), Pterois volitans (Linnaeus 1758) = miles (Bennett 1837), Moringua microchir (Gray 1831) = ferruginea (Bliss 1879), Muraenesox bagio (Hamilton Buchanan 1822)= cinereus,
Lycodontis meleagris (Shaw & Nodder 1795) = albomaculatus (Gudger 1929), Triacanthus biaculeatus (Bloch 1786) = blochii (Bleeker 1865), Cathigaster amboinensis (Bleeker 1865) var. of natalensis, Cathigaster coronata (Vaillant & Sauvage 1875) = rivulata (Schlegel), Romania laevis (Pennant 1776) = typus (Nardo 1840), Antennarius hispidus (Schneider 1801) = pinniceps (Gunther); nNot in CoF (1) - Solea pardachirus (Lacépède 1802); cannot be correctly assigned to a valid species (3) - Gnathanodon aurolineatus (Lacépède 1802), Asteropterus semipunctatus Rüppell, 1828, Sebastapistes sp. |